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  1. false friend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. false friend: Collins English Dictionary
  3. false friend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. false-friend, false friend: Wiktionary
  5. false friend: Dictionary.com
  6. False friend, The False Friend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. false friend: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  8. false friend: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. false friend: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Definitions from Wiktionary (false friend)

noun:  (linguistics, translation studies, lexicography) A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see false, friend.

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